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overillustrate

overillustrate verb: to illustrate excessively.

Verb

overillustrate (third-person singular simple present overillustrates, present participle overillustrating, simple past and past participle overillustrated)

  1. (transitive) To illustrate excessively.

Forms of overillustrate

third-person singular presentoverillustrates
present participleoverillustrating
past participleoverillustrated
pastoverillustrated

Origin of overillustrate

From over- + illustrate.

Questions about overillustrate

What does overillustrate mean?
Overillustrate means to illustrate excessively.
What part of speech is overillustrate?
Overillustrate is a verb.
What is the past tense of overillustrate?
The past tense of overillustrate is overillustrated.

Words near overillustrate in the dictionary

  1. overidentifying
  2. overideologization
  3. overidle
  4. Overijssel
  5. overillumination
  6. overillustrate
  7. overillustrated
  8. overillustrates
  9. overillustrating
  10. overillustration
  11. overimaginative

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